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The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to Residents, Families, and Staff. April 20, 2022
Advancing Diagnostic Excellence for Older Adults: Proceedings of a Workshop in Brief. July 21, 2022 - July 21, 2022
Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic to Improve Diagnosis. Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief. May 11, 2022
Advancing Diagnostic Excellence for Maternal Health Care: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief. November 15, 2023
Achieving Excellence in the Diagnosis of Acute Cardiovascular Events: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief. September 7, 2021
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A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury. July 27, 2016
Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being. November 6, 2019
Crisis Standards of Care: Ten Years of Successes and Challenges–Proceedings of a Workshop. May 13, 2020
Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis. September 25, 2013
Training in safe opioid prescribing and treatment of opioid use disorder in internal medicine residencies: a national survey of program directors. October 12, 2022
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Benefits and Challenges of Machine Learning Technologies for Medical Diagnostics. October 26, 2022
Meeting the Moment: Addressing Barriers and Facilitating Clinical Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Diagnosis. October 12, 2022
Barriers to accessing nighttime supervisors: a national survey of internal medicine residents. March 17, 2021
Communication and Transparency as a Means to Strengthening Workplace Culture During COVID-19. March 10, 2021
Organizational Evidence-Based and Promising Practices for Improving Clinician Well-Being. November 11, 2020
Advancing Maternal Health Equity and Reducing Maternal Mortality Workshop. June 7, 2021 - June 8, 2021
Pain Management and Prescription Opioid-related Harms: Exploring the State of the Evidence: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. November 30, 2016
Clinical reasoning education at US medical schools: results from a national survey of internal medicine clerkship directors. September 13, 2017
Burnout Among Health Care Professionals. A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care. July 19, 2017
Partnering with Patients to Drive Shared Decisions, Better Value, and Care Improvement—Workshop Proceedings. September 11, 2013
Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America. September 19, 2012
Utilizing a Systems and Design Thinking Approach for Improving Well-Being Within Health Professional Education and Health Care. January 16, 2019
Procuring Interoperability: Achieving High-Quality, Connected, and Person-Centered Care. October 24, 2018
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Safer Delivery of Surgical Services: a Programme of Controlled Before-and-after Intervention Studies with Pre-planned Pooled Data Analysis. January 25, 2017
Improving patient safety through the involvement of patients: development and evaluation of novel interventions to engage patients in preventing patient safety incidents and protecting them against unintended harm. November 16, 2016
Measuring harm and informing quality improvement in the Welsh NHS: the longitudinal Welsh national adverse events study. April 19, 2017
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Transitions of Care Consensus Policy Statement American College of Physicians-Society of General Internal Medicine-Society of Hospital Medicine-American Geriatrics Society-American College of Emergency Physicians-Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. April 22, 2009
Analysis of lawsuits related to diagnostic errors from point-of-care ultrasound in internal medicine, paediatrics, family medicine and critical care in the USA. June 24, 2020
Influence of a general practice pharmacist on medication management for patients at risk of medicine-related harm: a qualitative evaluation. July 20, 2022
Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: a critique of postpartum readmission rate as a quality metric. May 18, 2022
“I’m concerned”: a multi-site assessment of emergency medicine resident speaking up behaviors. December 21, 2022
Effects of racial bias in pulse oximetry on children and how to address algorithmic bias in clinical medicine. April 5, 2023
Knowledge, attitudes, and expectations of medical staff toward medical error management policies in humanitarian medicine: a qualitative study. February 10, 2021
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Prevalence and characterisation of diagnostic error among 7-day all-cause hospital medicine readmissions: a retrospective cohort study. September 16, 2020
Influence of socioeconomic bias on emergency medicine resident decision making and patient care. August 19, 2020
Clearing the Error: Using Public Deliberation to Define Patient Roles as Partners in the Diagnostic Process. November 8, 2017
Evaluation of the design and structure of electronic medication labels to improve patient health knowledge and safety: a systematic review. April 3, 2024
Hospital testing of the effectiveness of co-designed educational materials to improve patient and visitor knowledge and confidence in reporting patient deterioration. February 14, 2024
Primary care teams' reported actions to improve medication safety: a qualitative study with insights in high reliability organising. October 18, 2023
Five strategies for how patients and families can improve patient safety: World Patient Safety Day 2023. October 4, 2023
Using consumer engagement strategies to improve healthcare safety for young people: an exploration of the relevance and suitability of current approaches. November 30, 2022
WebM&M Cases Be Picky about your PICCs—Fragmented Care and Poor Communication at Discharge Leads to a PICC without a Plan. September 28, 2022
Association of patient and family reports of hospital safety climate with language proficiency in the US. June 29, 2022
FDA advises health care professionals and patients about insulin pen packaging and dispensing. October 28, 2020
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Emergency Department visits and patient safety in the United States. August 26, 2020
FDA alerts patients and health care professionals of EpiPen auto-injector errors related to device malfunctions and user administration. April 8, 2020
All consumer medication information is not created equal: implications for medication safety. April 19, 2017